Wisconsin Entomoloqical Society Newsletter Volwne 44, Number 3 October 2017 Stanley W. Szczytko (1949-2017) Szczytko was a longtime member of the Port Superior Marina in Bayfield, Wisconsin, [Editor's note - I am indebted to Dreux J. from which he often sailed with friends and Watermolen, Wisconsin Department of family. A memorial service for Szczytko Natural Resources, for sharing most of the was held on September 7 at the Sentry following information with us.] World Grand Hall. A memorial scholarship is being created in his name at UWSP. Dr. Stanley W. Szczytko, a stonefly expert from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP), died as a result of a sailing The Harvestmen or Daddy Long-legs of accident on Lake Superior on August 30. He Wisconsin was 68 years old. Szczytko had retired from UWSP in 2013, after attaining the title of By Dreux J. Watermolen Professor of Water Resources. He taught in Dreux. [email protected] the College of Natural Resources (CNR) from 1979 to 2012. ln 1984, he was named Introduction the intern program coordinator and in 1989 the UWSP Water Resources Coordinator. The harvestmen or daddy long-legs During his tenure, Szczytko trained many (Arachnida: Opiliones) have been the young entomologists and future water subject of minimal study in Wisconsin. Levi resources specialists. He also helped to and Levi ( 1952), tangential to their work on establish the CNR's Aquatic Biomonitoring spiders (Araneae), published a preliminary Laboratory in 1985. checklist of fourteen species of harvestmen found in the state along with a key to their Szczytko, a native of New Jersey, had genera. They later added an additional earned a master's degree from the species to the checklist (Levi et al. 1958). University ofNorth Texas in 1975 with the Edgar ( 1966) followed with a key to species thesis, "The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of then known to occur in the entire Great Texas," and a Ph.D. from the same Lakes region. These early works provided a institution in 1978 with the dissertation, basis for the Wisconsin species list included "Holomorphology and Drumming Behavior in Cokendolpher and Lee's (1993) North of Western Nearctic Isoperla (Plecoptera)." American catalog. Since these preliminary Over the course of his professional career, works, only a small number of studies have he published 45 scientific papers and addressed Wisconsin harvestmen; a single authored three books. UWSP bestowed its species and a small number of locality University Scholar Award on Szczytko in records have been added to the state 1983. In June 2015, he was the recipient of checklist in the intervening years. the Lifetime Achievement A ward of the International Society for Plecoptera and Levi and Levi (I 952) deposited voucher Ephemeroptera. specimens from their work in Harvard University' s Museum of Comparative Records: Door (Snyder et al. 2004, Zoology (MCZ) collection but did not Shultz 2013 ); Douglas (MCZ 4 73 21 , include the catalog numbers assigned to Levi and Levi 1952). them in their paper. In an effort to update the state checklist, I recently searched the Caddo pepperella Shear MCZ' s database to confirm that the Levis' Records: Door (Shultz 2013). specimens remain available for verification and study. I supplemented this effort with Family Ischyropsalididae searches of recent literature and additional museum databases. I also reviewed Sabacon cavicolens (Packard) photographic records available on citizen Records: Grant (MCZ 36960, Levi science websites: BugGuide (BG; and Levi 1952, Shear 1975); http://bugguide.net/) and iNaturalist (iNat; Kewaunee (MCZ 36957, Levi and www.inaturalist.org). These efforts Levi 1952, Shear 1975); Monroe confirmed the availability of the Levis' (MCZ 36270); Shawano (MCZ specimens and yielded additional records. 36961, Levi and Levi 1952, Shear 1975). An updated species checklist with county records follows. Families, genera, and Family Phalangiidae species are listed alphabetically. Collection numbers are provided for specimens from Odiellus pictus (Wood) the MCZ (the Levis' specimens as well as 0. pictus will likely be found in others), Denver Museum of Nature and additional northern and western Science (DMNS), and Illinois Natural counties as it occurs throughout History Survey (INHS). In many instances, Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Edgar specimen collection data were found to be 1971) and has been reported from incomplete, often lacking expert-determined eastern Minnesota (Shoemaker et al. species identifications or county 2017). Records: Dane (BG 2016[?]); information. I omitted such records from the Door (Snyder et al. 2004, Snyder current checklist, but acknowledge that they and Draney 2008, Shultz 2013); merit further investigation. Reports from the Douglas (MCZ 36589 and 36600, BG and iNat sites are referenced when I felt Levi and Levi 1952); Fond du Lac confident that the species identification (MCZ 36595, Levi and Levi 1952); provided is likely accurate. Iron (MCZ 36594); Kewaunee (MCZ 47319); Langlade (MCZ Species Checklist 36591, Levi and Levi 1952); Lincoln (MCZ 36598, Levi and Levi 1952); Family Acropsopilionidae Polk (iNat 2013); St. Croix (BG 2013). Acropsopi/io boopis (Crosby) Records: Vernon (MCZ 47322, Opilio parietinus (De Geer) Levi et al. 1958). Records: Crawford (MCZ 35986, Levi and Levi 1952); Marathon Famity Caddidae (MCZ 35974, Levi and Levi 1952). Caddo agilis Banks 2 Phalangium opilio Linnaeus L. ca/car will likely be found in Levi and Levi ( 1952) listed this additional northern and western species simply as "very common in counties as it occurs throughout all parts of Wisconsin." It will likely Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Edgar be found in additional northern I 971) and has been reported from counties as it occurs throughout eastern Minnesota (Shoemaker et al. Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Edgar 2017). Records: Ashland (MCZ 1971). Records: Columbia (DMNS 39778, Levi and Levi 1952, INHS 21792, Werling et al. 2012); Dane Opiliones 1382); Door (MCZ 36787 (Snelling 1968[?]); Door (Snyder et and 36792, Levi and Levi 1952, al. 2004, Snyder and Draney 2008, Snyder et al. 2004); Florence (Levi Shultz 2013); Iron (MCZ 35784); and Levi 1952); Grant (MCZ 36777, Outagamie (BG 2013 ); Levi and Levi 1952). Trempealeau (MCZ 35784). Leiobunum flavum Banks Family Sclerosomatidae Records: Barron (MCZ 36836); Brown (Draney and Jaskula 2004); Leiobunum a/drichi Weed Dane (MCZ 36835); Grant (MCZ Levi and Levi (1952) reported this 36837 and 47304, Levi and Levi species as "common in southern and 1952); Vernon (MCZ 47303, Levi central Wisconsin," and noted that and Levi 1952). they found "no records of it from counties north of Lincoln County, Leiobunum nigropalpi (Wood) though it probably does occur farther Records: Ashland (MCZ 47308, north." Shoemaker et al. (201 7) Levi and Levi 1952); Barron (BG recently reported L. aldrichi from 2015), Dane (BG 2010); Forest several counties in eastern (MCZ 36516, Levi and Levi 1952); Minnesota. Records: Door (MCZ Jackson (Levi and Levi 1952); 36758, 36760, and 36766; Shultz Marathon (MCZ 36506); 2013); Fond du Lac (MCZ 47310); Milwaukee (BG 201 0); Oneida Jackson (MCZ 36759); Juneau (MCZ 36517, Levi and Levi 1952); (MCZ 36762); Kewaunee (MCZ Price (MCZ 36515, Levi and Levi 36772 and 102156); La Crosse 1952); Walworth (MCZ 36519 and (MCZ 36754); Lincoln (MCZ 36752 36521, Levi and Levi 1952). and 36767); Marathon (MCZ 36751 and 36765); Marinette (MCZ Leiobunum politum Weed 36753); Monroe (MCZ 36770); L. politum will likely be found in Oconto (MCZ 36773 ); Pierce (MCZ additional northern and western 36743 and 36769); Richland (MCZ counties as it occurs throughout 36757 and 36771); Sauk (BG 2006); Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Edgar Trempealeau (MCZ 36744); 1971) and has been reported from Vernon (MCZ 36763, 36764, and eastern Minnesota (Shoemaker et al. 36768). 2017). Records: Adams (MCZ 36477, Levi and Levi 1952); Leiobunum ca/car (Wood) Ashland (MCZ 36483, Levi and Levi 1952); Buffalo (MCZ 364 76, 3 Levi and Levi 1952); Chippewa simply as "very common in all parts (MCZ 36484, Levi and Levi 1952); of Wisconsin." Records are available Douglas (MCZ 36479 and 36488, from 21 counties. The species will Levi and Levi 1952); Fond du Lac likely be found in additional areas as (Levi and Levi 1952); Forest (MCZ it occurs throughout Michigan's 36466, Levi and Levi 1952); Upper Peninsula (Edgar 1971) and Kewaunee (MCZ 36478) ; has been reported from Illinois Manitowoc (MCZ 36493, Levi and (Weed 1889) and eastern Minnesota Levi 1952); Oconto (MCZ 36485, (Shoemaker et al. 2017). Records: Levi and Levi 1952); Price (MCZ Barron (BG 1999); Burnett (MCZ 36467, Levi and Levi 1952); 36400); Crawford (MCZ 36443, Trempealeau (MCZ 36468, Levi 36445, 36455, and 47296); Dane and Levi 1952); Vernon (MCZ (MCZ 36407, BG 2013, iNat 2016); 36473 and 4 7309), Levi and Levi Door (MCZ 36462, Snyder et al. 1952; Walworth (MCZ 36491, Levi 2004); Iowa (MCZ 36402); and Levi 1952). Jackson (MCZ 36438); Lincoln (MCZ 36405); Manitowoc (MCZ Leiobunum ventricosum (Wood) 36463); Marathon (MCZ 36460); Records: Door (Snyder et al. 2004); Marinette (BG 20 IO); Milwaukee Douglas (MCZ 36663, Levi and (Davis 1934[?], BG 2007, BG 2009, Levi 1952); Florence (MCZ 36662 BG 2010, BG 2013, Fowler-Finn et and 36674[?], Levi and Levi 1952), al. 2014, Kilmer and Rodriguez Grant (MCZ 47298, Levi and Levi 2017); Polk (BG 2015); Richland 1952); Green (INHS Opiliones (MCZ 36396); Sheboygan (BG 1364); Milwaukee (BG 2010); 2012); Trempealeau (MCZ 36430); Oconto (BG 2007); Polk (Davis Vernon (MCZ 36391, 36393, and 1934); Vernon (MCZ 36673[?]); 36451 ); Vilas (MCZ 36415); Vilas (MCZ 36681); Walworth Walworth (MCZ 36399, 36409, (MCZ 36664 and 47299, Levi and 36410, and 36431); Washington Levi 1952). (MCZ 36461); Waupaca (MCZ 36392 and 36457). Leiobunum verrucosum (Wood) Records: Door (Snyder and Draney Family Taracidae 2008); La Crosse (BG 2007); Richland (MCZ 36798); Walworth Crosbycus dasycmenus (Crosby) (MCZ 36799); Waupaca (MCZ Records: Columbia (MCZ 47324, 36796); Waushara (MCZ 72875, Levi et al. 1958); Eau Claire (MCZ Levi and Levi 1952).